TERROR WATCH – AT 5:59 P.M. ET:  The latest "isolated incident" not related to any overall scheme, philosophy, religious fanaticism or anything else other than a sense of adventure:

NEW YORK -- The father of an airport driver accused of trying to cook up homemade bombs in a Colorado motel for an attack on New York City was charged Monday with trying to get rid of chemicals and other evidence.

FBI agents arrested Mohammed Wali Zazi on Monday at his home in a Denver suburb after a previous charge, lying to the government, was dropped. He was out on bail.

You mean, he didn't lie to the government?

A new indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn accused Mr. Zazi of conspiring with others to destroy or hide "glasses, masks, liquid chemicals and containers" that were evidence in a foiled terrorism plot.

Mr. Zazi, the father of suspect Najibullah Zazi, was scheduled to appear in a Denver court Monday. There was no immediate response to a phone message left with his attorney, and the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, which is leading the investigation, declined to comment.

COMMENT:  I wonder how long it took the government to read him his Miranda rights?  A minute?  Ten seconds?

And, by the way, whatever happened to that guy arrested in New Jersey last week, on a tip from an alert citizen, who had an arsenal in his home, along with jihadist material?  That story has disappeared.  Just a guy reading up on religion, I guess.

February 1,  2010